Anora McGaha, Author at Women Writers, Women's Books https://booksbywomen.org/author/anora-mcgaha/ Thu, 08 Jan 2015 19:06:50 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.3 39938774 What Do You Mean I Have to Market My Writing? http://booksbywomen.org/what-do-you-mean-i-have-to-market-my-writing-by-anora-mcgaha/ http://booksbywomen.org/what-do-you-mean-i-have-to-market-my-writing-by-anora-mcgaha/#comments Mon, 24 Nov 2014 05:25:31 +0000 http://booksbywomenorg.netfirms.com/?p=12633 We all start with different decks. Some with no cards. Some with no money. Some not even at the table. It’s not fair. There’s nothing fair about it. Maybe it will never be fair. But if you want to play, if I want to play, whatever odds I was given, them’s the odds I got. […]

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]]> http://booksbywomen.org/what-do-you-mean-i-have-to-market-my-writing-by-anora-mcgaha/feed/ 12 12633 Seven Reasons You’re Publishing Too Soon http://booksbywomen.org/seven-reasons-youre-publishing-too-soon-by-anora-mcgaha/ http://booksbywomen.org/seven-reasons-youre-publishing-too-soon-by-anora-mcgaha/#comments Thu, 01 May 2014 15:51:21 +0000 http://booksbywomenorg.netfirms.com/?p=11631 If you’re like many of us, the chance to publish a book of our own writing is like arriving in the promised land. It is the holy grail, an elixir, a blissful intoxication. Seeing our work in print can’t come soon enough! I’ve felt that way. (Still do every time a new edition of When […]

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]]> http://booksbywomen.org/seven-reasons-youre-publishing-too-soon-by-anora-mcgaha/feed/ 7 11631 Book Review: Elaine Neil Orr – A Different Sun http://booksbywomen.org/book-review-elaine-neil-orr-a-different-sun/ http://booksbywomen.org/book-review-elaine-neil-orr-a-different-sun/#comments Wed, 15 Jan 2014 19:09:21 +0000 http://booksbywomenorg.netfirms.com/?p=10788 A Different Sun by Elaine Neil Orr “Overseer say whippin’ wasn’t enough.” “Enough for what?” “To make an impression.” The word sounded like something that bears down and changes you forever. “It’s good you cry,” Uncle Eli said. Do you remember  Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness? Author Elaine Neil Orr’s A Different Sun is a […]

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]]> http://booksbywomen.org/book-review-elaine-neil-orr-a-different-sun/feed/ 1 10788 Revolt by Qaisra Shahraz, Released October 7, 2013 http://booksbywomen.org/revolt-by-qaisra-shahraz-released-october-7-2013/ http://booksbywomen.org/revolt-by-qaisra-shahraz-released-october-7-2013/#respond Wed, 09 Oct 2013 03:19:34 +0000 http://booksbywomenorg.netfirms.com/?p=9953 Revolt by Qaisra Shahraz is Launched Arcadia Press launched Revolt by the international best-selling English / Pakistani author Qaisra Shahraz. We have been following her international travels to exotic literary festivals in China, India, Indonesia, Germany just to name a few. In preparation for Qaisra stepping up as Site Sponsor for Women Writers, Women Books, […]

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]]> http://booksbywomen.org/revolt-by-qaisra-shahraz-released-october-7-2013/feed/ 0 9953 The Vet and the IED http://booksbywomen.org/the-vet-and-the-ied-a-dv-poem/ http://booksbywomen.org/the-vet-and-the-ied-a-dv-poem/#comments Mon, 01 Oct 2012 13:05:50 +0000 http://booksbywomenorg.netfirms.com/?p=7637 During the month of October 2012, for Domestic Violence Awareness Month, we will be featuring some posts related to Domestic Violence. This one is a poem by Anora. People like to ask her if her #DV writing is based on personal experience. She answers, “What’s important to know is that it is universal.”  The Vet […]

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]]> http://booksbywomen.org/the-vet-and-the-ied-a-dv-poem/feed/ 9 7637 Honoring Literary Fiction Author Camilla Trinchieri http://booksbywomen.org/honoring-us-literary-fiction-author-camilla-trinchieri/ http://booksbywomen.org/honoring-us-literary-fiction-author-camilla-trinchieri/#respond Thu, 07 Jun 2012 21:23:31 +0000 http://booksbywomenorg.netfirms.com/?p=4885 As writers, each of us has a writer, or several,  who has made a difference in our lives. Writers we admired. Writers who have mentored us, friended us, sent an encouraging note. Or, from a distance, simply and deeply moved us  with their work. Literary fiction author, Camilla Trinchieri, is one of those writers for […]

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]]> http://booksbywomen.org/honoring-us-literary-fiction-author-camilla-trinchieri/feed/ 0 4885 Book Review: Poet Diana Raab’s Listening to Africa http://booksbywomen.org/poet-diana-raabs-listening-to-africa-reviewed-by-anora-mcgaha/ http://booksbywomen.org/poet-diana-raabs-listening-to-africa-reviewed-by-anora-mcgaha/#comments Wed, 30 May 2012 13:35:52 +0000 http://booksbywomenorg.netfirms.com/?p=4686 Each poet’s voice is as unique as they are, and poems within a collection are varied too, like a region’s weather, with trends and ranges, but ultimately, hopefully, both predictable and unpredictable. Diana M. Raab’s fourth collection of poetry was rich in variety of styles, common threads, and the unpredicted. Listening to Africa emerged during […]

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]]> http://booksbywomen.org/poet-diana-raabs-listening-to-africa-reviewed-by-anora-mcgaha/feed/ 3 4686 Tips from Going to a Book Festival http://booksbywomen.org/tips-from-going-to-a-book-festival/ http://booksbywomen.org/tips-from-going-to-a-book-festival/#comments Thu, 24 May 2012 16:59:36 +0000 http://booksbywomenorg.netfirms.com/?p=4583 The Gaithersburg Book Festival. Pretty much my first time. Free. Close. Just up the road from my family’s home in Maryland. Company. I got to drive with a fellow author, and global nomad (TCK), Sara Taber. We interviewed each other and recorded it on my smart phone. (Some conversations are just too good to forget, […]

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]]> http://booksbywomen.org/book-review-lisa-bloom-swagger/feed/ 2 4318 Letter from the Editor http://booksbywomen.org/letter-from-the-editor-anora-mcgaha/ http://booksbywomen.org/letter-from-the-editor-anora-mcgaha/#comments Thu, 01 Dec 2011 19:00:25 +0000 http://booksbywomenorg.netfirms.com/?p=3025 This letter is about what Women Writers, Women Books means to its  editor, within the context of her life. I grew up moving. Moved when I was 1, 2, 3, 5 and we kept moving. Cambridge, Massachusetts. London, England. Cambridge, Massachusetts. Amman, Jordan. Port Said, Egypt. And on. And on. So many places I had to write a […]

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